The countdown to the debut of the women’s soccer team in this year’s World Cup, in Australia and New Zealand, reaches two months this Wednesday (24). The biggest event in the sport serves as inspiration for the exhibition “Rainhas de Copas”, which has been held at the Museu do Futebol, in São Paulo, since April 28th. More than telling the story of the women’s World Cups and Brazilian participation, the exhibition presents the struggle of women for space in the most popular sport on the planet. It starts in 1988, when an experimental tournament with 12 teams was held in China, the embryo of the first World Cup of the International Federation of the modality (FIFA), four years later, in the same country. Although the test-event was not televised, the exhibition features rare images of Brazil’s shots and goals, in addition to the collection of the athletes themselves and clippings from Jornal dos Sports, which had reporter Cláudia da Silva as the only journalist in the country to cover the competition. In the space destined for 1988, there is even a photo of the Swedish Pia Sundhage, then a player and, today, coach of the Brazilian national team. “When we research about 1988, discover Cláudia and start making contact with those pioneering players, we create bonds with them. That’s how we rescued the stories, looking in the library’s collections to confirm data, bringing photos of the athletes themselves, because there is no care at all with the memory of women’s football in our country”, highlighted Juliana Cabral, former defender of the women’s national team. do Brasil and one of the curators of the exhibition, alongside Aira Bonfim, Lu Castro and Silvana Goellner. We start the countdown to the 2023 Women’s Cup! 🤩🇺🇸The World Cup takes place between July 20th and August 20th, so take the opportunity to get to know the #ExpoRainhasDeCopas 🇧🇷👑♥️ We are waiting for you! 😊 pic.twitter.com/WsZlMAzHeG — Museu do Futebol 👑♥ (@museudofutebol) May 20, 2023 “A lot of what people will go through [na mostra] it is what was in the hands of those queens who experienced that. It is also a tribute to all the women who were on the field for some time, but unfortunately, due to the lack of structure and prejudice, they were unable to become queens”, added the former athlete, who represented Brazil in the 1991 World Cups. and 1995 and which won the silver medal at the Athens Olympics (Greece), in 2004. The exhibition travels through the World Cups from 1991 to 2019, with the technical sheet of the selection’s matches and important records, such as the reconstitution of the first green goal and yellow in World Cups (which has no images) – by Elane on Japan in the inaugural edition of the event – or the video with Marta’s great goal against the United States in the 2007 semifinal. from the photo of the Brazilian women holding a sign with the message “Brazil, we need support”, just after the runner-up 16 years ago, the best campaign in the country. “There are a lot of people talking about women’s football in the country who don’t know the story, who don’t know that women were banned from playing in the country [devido a um decreto de 1941, que perdurou até 1979]who does not know that the base categories [femininas] emerged a short time ago, after Conmebol mandated [Confederação Sul-Americana de Futebol]in 2019 [exigindo que os clubes participantes dos torneios continentais tivessem equipes femininas profissionais e de formação]”, said Juliana. “So, knowing the story, the protagonists, is extremely important for people to understand the current context. Anyone who comes to the exhibition will be able to see that nothing was ever given to the woman. She always fought hard to occupy that space, with great bravery and quality”, added the curator and former athlete. 🚨 TODAY: we received a visit from one of our Queens of Hearts, Ant 🐜👑♥ pic.twitter.com/8SlZEpjcf0 — Museu do Futebol 👑♥ (@museudofutebol) May 10, 2023 In the last room of the exhibition, visitors check out a interactive panel where you can learn about the trajectory of the players who have already represented Brazil in the World Cups. Among them are Marta, Cristiane, Formiga, Pretinha, Kátia Cilene, Sissi and Juliana herself, who became references that they themselves did not have in their careers. There is also a replica of the World Cup trophy, which the Brazilian team will try to win for the first time. “I think we have good names [na atual seleção], a base that, perhaps, will not shine in this Cup, but it is a very promising future. Those who are already playing and have never played in a World Cup, I’m sure that, for everything they’ve been doing for the national team, they’ll have a great World Cup. And we want this: to put more and more names of the queens who were able to step on the field, defend the selection, and that the fight continues for the woman to always be on the field”, concluded Juliana. The ticket to visit the “Rainha de Copas” exhibition costs R$ 20.00 (half R$ 10.00), and children up to seven years old do not pay. The Football Museum is located at Praça Charles Miller, at the Paulo Machado de Carvalho Stadium (Pacaembu). The exhibition runs until August 27 and is open from Tuesday to Sunday, from 9 am to 6 pm (Brasília time), with entry until 5 pm.
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